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Should Athletes Get Paid?

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Imagine you are competing in a sports event and you played amazing, but your team loses the game because some other players are not good, and they ruined it for the team. Do you really think those players deserve an award? A debate has been raging about if athletes, specifically younger ones should receive participation trophies or not. I believe athletes should not receive participation trophies. Athletes should not get participation trophies for a variety of reasons. First off, you should have to earn your trophies. Not everything in life is handed to you; you have to earn it just like you should have to earn a trophy. According to Ashley Merryman, the co-author of “The Science Of Winning and Losing,” reported that “It’s fine to tell your
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